• Brittany Maynard
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    The Euphemism of ‘Death With Dignity’

    There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is death. (Proverbs 14:12) Brittany Maynard, a young woman with an incurable brain tumor, recently took her own life rather than suffer through a painful, difficult descent into natural death. She had moved from California to Oregon, which is a “right-to-die” state that allows terminally ill people to be assisted in ending their lives on their terms. How should we think about this? It depends on your starting point. If you leave God out of the picture, believing that man is autonomous with the right to make all our own choices independent of any outside source…